too many hobbies

Recently Downloaded List: 5

1. Middle Eastern Swan Song by Deejay Om
2. Tandoori is a Snap by Deejay Om
3. So Often by Kidd Jordan Trio
4. Jolie Banane by Kraak & Smaak
5. Jazzhole by Free the Robots
6. Birdflu Guns Up Buraka by M.I.A.
7. Red Sea Black Sea by Shearwater
8. Sing! Captain by Handsome Furs
9. Speak to me Bones by Land of Talk
10. I Better Run by The Rosebuds
11. Arcadia by Apparat
12. The Songs That We Sing by Charlotte Gainsbourg
13. Four Color Love Story by The Metasciences
14. Cuckoo by Santa Maria
15. In My Head by The Ballet
16. Roll On (Feat. Jenny Lewis) by Dntel
17. Wild is the Wind by The Second Band
18. Love and Nostalgia by Friday Bridge
19. Broken Arm by Winterpills
20. Goodnight by Standfast
21. Release Me by Oh Laura

And, recently purchased by me: Someone to Drive Me Home by the Long Blondes, 23 by Blonde Redhead, Cassadega by Bright Eyes and Nux Vomica by The Veils.

Next Week: Bjork!!

Recently* Downloaded List: 4

1. Bubblegum by Annemarie
2. Darker Blues by Tom Rothrock
3. Racing Time by Bronx Cheerleader
4. Us Ones In Between by Sunset Rubdown
5. Again & Again by The Bird and The Bee
6. I’m No Lover by Antarctica Takes It!
7. Put a Penny in the Slot by Fionn Regan
8. Crazy by Gnarls Barkley
9. I Wish That I Could See You Soon by Herman Dune
10. Bloody Great Big Fucking Party by Hookers Green No. 1
11. LDN by Lily Allen
12. Pour Me Another by Ola Podrida
13. Young Folks by Peter, Bjorn & John (w/ Victoria Bergsman)
14. Winter Sun by Rah Rah
15. Rivers by Sleeping States
16. Two Birds by Charalambides
17. All This Time by Klanguage
18. My HoneySugarBabyLady by Je t’aime mon amour
19. All My Heroes are Weirdos by !!!
20. Former Jezebel by Parts for All Makes
21. Operation by Charlotte Gainsbourg

*for a very generous reading of 'Recently'

Merry Musicmas and Happy New Music Year

This holiday season was very generous with the music (well, very generous in general, too), to my surprise and delight.  Guess whose pile's the biggest?

Hooray, it's mine!  I even have a mysterious cd import on backorder coming any day now.

The pile on the right is the kids'.  They got (from top to bottom) Meltdown! by Justin Roberts, Folk Playground (a Putumayo collection), and We are... The Laurie Berkner Band.  They also got the Johnny Cash Children's Album (not pictured) as a pre-holiday present.  Lucky kids.

My husband's stack, in the middle, has The Complete Verve/Remixed Deluxe Box, John Zorn's Astronome, and Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards by Tom Waits.  The kids and I picked out the first two, and Jere's dad got the last; only fitting, since we got him the same cd as one of his presents.

And the big hoard on the left is mine, all mine.  I got:
Destroyer's Rubies by Destroyer
The Air Force by Xiu Xiu
Let's Submerge: The Anthology by X-Ray Spex
Night of the Ankou by The North Sea and Rameses III
The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie
Ys by Joanna Newsom
Black Cadillac by Rosanne Cash
The Runaway Found by The Veils
boys and girls in america by The Hold Steady, and
an anthology of noise & electronic music/fourth a-chronology 1937 - 2005

My, don't my loved ones have fabulous taste.  I've only had time to give a good (but by no means thorough) listen to Rosanne Cash, The Hold Steady, The Veils and Tom Waits, and I love them all to pieces.  I can't wait to wrap my ears around the rest of 'em.

Recently Downloaded List: 3

Extra-long version:

1. Deadhouse by Katatonia
2. Micael by Juana Molina
3. Come Out (Come Down, Fade Out, Be Gone) by 120 Days
4. Every Day is Halloween by The Postmarks
5. I Still Don’t Know Ya by Blog 27
6. In Our Talons by Bowerbirds
7. Back to Bed by Boyskout
8. Happy Yet? by Boyskout
9. Yah! by Buraka Som Sistema
10. Kill Your Employer by Busdriver
11. Lisa’s Spider by Cadence Weapon
12. Forest Families by The Knife
13. The Golden Day is Dying by Hem
14. Lightness by Peter & The Wolf
15. Goodbye by The Postmarks
16, Ultra Seductive by Plus Device
17. Breakable by Ingrid Michaelson
18. Breakfast by the Mattress by Kristoffer Ragnstam
19. Harvest by Clinic
20. Ipod Xmas by Hello Saferide
21. The Incident by Urbs
22. Deathhands by White Flight
23. Me and the Bees by Safe Home

Recently Downloaded List: 2

1. Hopelessly Wasted by Shrag
2. Stop Signs by Oklahoma Trio
3. Choir Boys by Oklahoma Trio
4. Halloween Song by the Evangelicals
5. Didn’t Mean To Break Our Love by Bella
6. Snakes in the Grass by the Essex Green
7. Serious by TSOL
8. World War III by TSOL
9. Blackbeard by Princeton
10. The Indifference Curve by Princeton
11. I’m a Broken Heart by the Bird and the Bee
12. Live is a Peanut by Bonnie and Clyde
13. Liquid Escapism by Bonnie and Clyde
14.  Timeshaker by White Flight
15. Cha Cha Cha by the Little Ones
16. Steal the Blueprints by +/-

Recently Downloaded List: 1

1. Beautiful Day by Katell Keineg
2. Songs That No One Will Hear by We Are Soldiers We Have Guns
3. Little Red Radio by Pas/Cal
4. She's So Married by Gertie Fox
5. Like Castanets by Bishop Allen
6. Carousel by Parker Lewis
5. Wasting Time by Parker Lewis
6. Middleclass Kid by Pelle Carlberg
7. Riff Raff by Pipas
8. Fearful by Beat Radio
9. Cold Morning by Buckaneers
10. Alfie by Lily Allen
11. You Could Have Both by The Long Blondes
12. Chlorophyll by Dorit Chrysler
13. That's Right by The Baldwin Brothers
14. Funky Junkyard by The Baldwin Brothers
15. Accidental Beatnik by Coconut Monkeyrocket
16. Busy Doing Nothing by Love Is All
17. Herr Bar by Clark
18. Imagination Limitation (Mix 1, Part B) by Henrik Schwarz

Note that these are in no particular order, but were all downloaded (free and legally) from the mp3 blogs in the sidebar.  The list actually represents my favorite tracks from the much bigger list of songs I've recently downloaded.